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Egyptian
Etymology
nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”) + jr (perfective relative form of jrj (“to do, to make”)) + kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) + rꜥ (“Ra”), thus ‘the fine one whom the life-force of Ra made’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- A throne name notably borne by Neferirkare Kakai, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfr-jr-kꜣ-rꜥ
References
- “Nfr-jr-kꜣ-Rꜥw (lemma ID 99016)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 39
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 54, 181
